Angela Shah
Angela Shah is the editor of Xconomy Texas. She has written about startups along a wide entrepreneurial spectrum, from Silicon Valley transplants to Austin transforming a once-sleepy university town in the '90s tech boom to 20-something women defying cultural norms as they seek to build vital IT infrastructure in a war-torn Afghanistan. As a foreign correspondent based in Dubai, her work appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek/Daily Beast and Forbes Asia.
Before moving overseas, Shah was a staff writer and columnist with The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. She has a Bachelor's of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and she is a 2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. With the launch of Xconomy Texas, she's returned to her hometown of Houston.
Recent posts
—SolarWinds, an Austin IT services company, has acquired Samanage, a maker of service desk software based in Cary, NC. The $350 million cash deal is expected to close... Read more »
Houston—A delegation led by the Bahraini oil minister was in town recently meeting with business and government leaders. It makes sense considering Houston is the birthplace of the fracking technology... Read more »
[Updated 4/9/19, 9:45 am ET. See below.] Austin—LiveOak Venture Partners announced today it has closed a $105 million fund, its second.
The firm’s “Fund II” has already made... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Newchip, an Austin online market of crowdfunded deals, has accepted 45 startups into its remote accelerator program, according to... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Chevron Technology Ventures Thursday launched a $90 million fund for energy investments. The fund is CTV’s seventh and investments will... Read more »
Houston—One of the challenges in creating a robust tech hub in Houston is the perceived lack of talent available to join startups.
“People say they don’t know where to start... Read more »
San Antonio—David Garcia is stepping down as CEO of the Geekdom coworking space, according to the San Antonio Business Journal.
“The collaboration and coworking environment at Geekdom creates opportunity to... Read more »
Austin—Even the most staid of industries can use a boost from technology.
Case in point: Cerity, an Austin, TX-based insurance tech startup founded last year says it’s developing software that... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Georgetown, TX-based AgileCraft was acquired by Australia-based Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM), the team collaboration and productivity software maker, for $166 million... Read more »
Houston—Co-working company WeWork is opening its latest “Labs” space in Houston.
New York-based WeWork, which has 49 Labs programs across the United States and globe, opened its first Texas location,... Read more »
Dallas—AmplifAI Solutions, which makes artificial intelligence-enabled software for call center operations, has raised $3.9 million.
Investors in the funding round were Dallas-based Naya Ventures, and LiveOak Venture Partners and Capital... Read more »
Houston—Tom Luby, the head of JLabs in Houston, has been named the new director of the Texas Medical Center’s Innovation Institute, the center announced Monday morning.
Luby takes over the... Read more »
[Updated 3/14/19, 1:53 pm CT. See below.] Another South By Southwest festival comes to a close in Austin. Let’s catch up with the highlights from the tech portion this... Read more »
Dallas—Part of the challenge for e-commerce is finding ways to prevent shoppers from having buyer’s remorse.
“You never want to have a customer who has a disgruntled post-purchase feeling,” says... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Boeing (NYSE: BE) has acquired Houston-based ForeFlight, a mobile and web-based maker of aviation software, according to a press... Read more »
Alice, a Houston-based digital community that connects women founders to resources tailored to their startup’s needs, has received funding from the Bumble Fund.
The fund, which was launched last July... Read more »
Austin—All politics is local, the adage goes, and those campaigns are sorely stuck in analog mode.
That’s why Shion Deysarkar co-founded Blue Squad two years ago as a “digital coalition”... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Sam’s Club Now, the Dallas-based innovation center where Walmart’s bulk buying business is located, says it has a new... Read more »
One size fits most (at best), and a women’s sizing system created during the Depression doesn’t gibe in an e-commerce business that prizes personalization.
That’s why startups are turning to new... Read more »
Austin—Spycloud, an Austin cybersecurity startup, has raised $21 million.
The funding round was led by M12, the venture fund of tech company Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). New investor Altos Ventures... Read more »
